Last month my sister passed away from early-onset Alzheimer’s. She was 58 and probably had the disease for well over a decade.

Awful. Anyone I share this news with has a visible physical reaction to it. They shudder. Take a deep breath. It’s the disease everyone fears. Alzheimer’s doesn’t just kill you, they are thinking, it robs you of the person you are long before it has the mercy to kill you.

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